SAINT-ANDRÉ, France (AFP) - A fevered hunt for more wreckage from missing flight MH370 on La Reunion island turned up no new clues on Sunday as authorities said metallic debris found by locals did not come from an airplane. However Malaysia urged authorities in the Indian Ocean region...

SEATTLE - Things are not looking quite so rosy at US company Gravity Payments, less than four months after it made the news for a groundbreaking move to erase income inequality. In April, the Seattle-based credit card payment firm announced it would be raising its employees' pay to a ...

BEIJING (REUTERS) - The Chinese military's official newspaper warned on Sunday that a corrupt army would not win wars, three days after the government announced a former senior officer would be prosecuted for graft. Serving and retired Chinese military officers as well as state media ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A giant picture of the beloved Zimbabwean lion killed by an American trophy hunter was among images projected Saturday onto the Empire State Building in New York in a dazzling display. The "Projecting Change on the Empire State Building" initiative was designed to rai...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Dozens of activists including men wearing bras staged a protest in Hong Kong on Sunday after a woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half months' jail for assaulting a police officer with her breast. Around 100 people gathered for the light-hearted "breast walk" protest...

An Indonesian embassy official in Canberra asked Radio Australia to stop playing "hot" music in his home country this week in 1965. First Secretary A. Marentek made the request the same week the Indonesian broadcast authorities condemned "hot music" as corrupt. Rock and roll music had...

YANGON (AFP) - The toll from flash floods and landslides in Myanmar after days of torrential rain is likely to spike, the United Nations warned Sunday, as monsoonal downpours brought misery to thousands across the region. At least 27 people have been killed and more than 150,000 affec...

TAIPEI (AFP) - One has been beheaded, others defaced. Some are dressed in costumes by pranksters. Statues of Taiwan's former ruler Chiang Kai-shek have been increasingly targeted as the island confronts its authoritarian past. Though still seen as a hero by some in Taiwan for waging w...